travel

Jesus seems to encourage a kind of musical chairs, no one staying put for very long.

Tom Fate’s essays present an ethically complicated journey of discovery.

The biblical landscape is a stony one.

We’re hungrier than ever for physicality, place, and embodiment.

Eric Freeze and his family moved to Nice—in order to spend less and live better.

As we hiked the Abraham Path, I realized that every step was inescapably political.

The traveler eats whatever food is placed before her; she aims to learn as much of the language as possible. A tourist sacrifices less.

Wouldn't it be great if one of the world's best travel writers, after
60 years and fortysome books, went back through her work and notes and
plucked out hundreds of haunting, revelatory, shimmering moments— brief
encounters that "have been sparks of my work," she might say, "if often
only in glimpses—a sighting through a window, a gentle snatch of sound,
the touch of a hand . . . fleeting contacts [that] have fuelled my
travels down the years, generated my motors, excited my laughter and
summoned my sympathies."

So much seems possible when we are traveling. We encounter new people and get to know familiar people in new ways as we share meals, chores and adventures.

Rick Steves on the spirituality of traveling: People have a lot of fear, and the flip side of fear is understanding. When you travel to new places you understand more, so you fear less. Then you can love people as a Christian should. The less you travel, the more likely that media with a particular agenda can shape your viewpoint. Those of us who travel are a little more resilient in weathering the propaganda storms that blow across the U.S. media.

Herod tells the Eastern intellectuals the truth, and the rest is history.